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To: 1010RD

So you are saying no matter what happend, even with GOP control of all branches, the left wins.

So why bother with elections?


45 posted on 03/28/2015 12:31:10 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

We got here by losing elections. Imagine that Kennedy didn’t steal the election and Nixon followed Ike, what would America be like today?

Go back further and imagine a world without Teddy Roosevelt winning the Presidency. No Wilson or a Coolidge second term and no Harding.

American History didn’t just start, it’s been a long slog the whole way and if history is any indicator government will continue to grow. It started back when Washington was President and hasn’t stopped.

For every dollar government spends there’s some recipient willing to fight tooth and nail in a way we cannot. So we have to play smart, start pushing the state in the direction we want. How do you do that?

Smart compromise is the first one. To enforce laws against illegal aliens you need a broader, more invasive police state than we currently have. I don’t want that. So I’d work on welfare reform.

Look to Mike Lee as a great example of conservative populism. So here’s what I would do: upon the election of a GOP POTUS and the retention or improvement of GOP majorities in Congress in 2016 pass welfare reform that denies benefits to illegal aliens and transfer the savings to the states for instate programs to help poor American citizens. Go for the jugular and make Dems pick between illegals and blacks as a constituency. Welcome blacks back into the party of liberty.

Think judo, not front assault.


49 posted on 03/28/2015 12:39:35 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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